Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Like an aging roue looking back on halcyon days, the House Un-American Activities Committee has tried to sanitize its image. It changed its name to the House Internal Security Committee in 1969 and made abortive attempts to revive lost vigor (convening hearings on such left-wing groups as the S.D.S.). But last week, in the best oldtime "I have a list" form, the committee released a compilation of "radical" speakers who have spread leftist rhetoric over American campuses during the past two years...
...list was based on questionnaires sent to 179 colleges and universities asking names of all speakers who appeared on campus during the last two years and the fees paid for their lectures; 95 replied. From this information the committee chose the names of 65 affiliated with left-wing organizations, affiliation being determined on the basis of support as well as actual membership. Thus a speaker could make the list, for example, if he had attended a public rally of certain antiwar groups...
...bachelor popularity of owlish Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon's one-man think tank, has earned him the White House sobriquet "playboy of the western wing." Last week his reputation was appraised by pretty blonde Washington Hostess Barbara Howar. Said she on-camera to TV's Mike Wallace: "Mike, it takes time to be a swinger, you know. Henry doesn't have that kind of time. If he's taking you out to dinner, don't start to get dressed until the third time he's called...
...third period, the Crimson got a break when a direct kick was called for from about 20 yards out. As Bogovich lined up the ball, Gomez moved to the left wing, taking a fullback with him. Then, Gomez quickly broke back to screen the goalie, and Bogovich kicked a perfect placement into the lower right corner...
...most of the basic issues he votes with the good guys and in Indiana that takes guts. He opposed both Haynsworth and Carswell, as well as the ABM. He has opposed the war since the early days of the Johnson Administration. Predictably he is in trouble. His opponent, right-wing Republican Rep. Richard Roudebush, is a former national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and supports Nixon and Agnew about as much as anyone...